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Middle school poetry resources for Easel
Poetry Unit - 21 Patterns that are perfect for writing poems - Digital or Print
This poetry unit is an all-encompassing, no-prep writing unit designed to help students work on their poetry writing skills! This works wonderfully for poetry month or any time of the year!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:33 Poetry Activity PagesDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintMany Different Poem Types to Choose FromPoetry Project Choice Grid2 Pages of Ideas to Extend the ActivityPoetry Reflection QuestionsGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, or 7th grade!CHECK OUT TH
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3rd - 6th
Poetry Task Cards Reading Comprehension Poetry Analysis Worksheets & Activities
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to poetry? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 poetry task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short Poems will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed response questions.Great for middle school students. Teachers of other grade leve
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6th - 9th
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Poetry Analysis Unit Poem of the Week Poetry Reading Comprehension Passages
Are you looking for engaging ways to teach poetry in your classroom? Look no further, this Poetry Analysis Unit: Poem of the Week is a complete way to get you set up to begin this study in your classroom. This format is a consistent way to teach your students traditional poetry. My students have gained exposure to a variety of authors and become more fluent readers through these. POEM OF THE WEEK PACKET INCLUDES:Print and digital format available (see page 3 for link)Teacher notes and tipsClicka
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4th - 6th
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Bio Poem Template June Bulletin Board End of Year Writing Prompt 3rd 4th Grade
End of Year project made simple! This bio poem lesson and bulletin board for the end of the school year are a great way to celebrate each student as a unique individual. This simple yet powerful bulletin board is a show-stopper!This bio poetry lesson includes templates to make writing these poems a snap! Modeled writing, student checklist, fast finisher challenge task, and templates are included to make displaying your students' writing simple! You can print and go with a scoring rubric and anch
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Poetry Reading Comprehension Activities Poem Analysis 3rd 4th 5th Grade
High School English Sub Plans for Language Arts Classes With 10 Lesson Plans
Looking for emergency sub plans for your high school English class? If you don't have time to make detailed sub plans, or need some creative lesson plans to use in-between units, this is the resource for you! Don't let sick days be wasted days - these no-prep lessons are meaningful for students and easy for substitute teachers to implement! All student materials are available in PDF to print and writeable Google Slides. DETAILS:⭐ 10 Days of Lesson Plans ⭐ 8 Individual Lesson (two lessons last f
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8th - 12th
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Figurative Language Worksheets - Similes, Metaphors, Idioms and Easel
This figurative language pack includes a types of figurative language handout that defines different figures of speech like similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, and hyperbole and gives an example of each. On the first worksheet students have to identify ten sentences that use metaphors or similes. There are nine additional practice worksheets with practice with similes, idioms, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. No prep. Print and go. Keys included. Ten worksheets in all. Great ac
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4th - 7th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Idioms Bundle - PowerPoints, Worksheets, Easel Activities and Boom Cards
Mother to Son Langston Hughes Poetry Analysis - Printable & Digital
Make metaphors come alive with these "Mother to Son" poem activities! This poetry analysis resource includes a graphic organizer to walk students through the rich figurative language in Hughes' highly relatable poem and help them analyze extended metaphor, character, and theme. It also includes a one-page biography of Langston Hughes and comprehension questions about the poem, the informational text, and connections between the poem and the poet's life.(If you teach poetry in middle school, don'
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Langston Hughes Poetry Unit for Middle School - PDF & Digital
Creative Writing Poetry - 50 Formulas to Help Students Write Poems
Creative Writing Poetry 911: First Aid for Writing Poetry * Now over 50 Formulas for Helping Students Write Original PoemsThis IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.This student aid and handouts bundle features OVER 50 formulas for writing poetry. If you have students who struggle with creativity (excellent for L.D. students, as well as dominant left-brained thinkers), these formulas are excellent. Even the most uncreative student will be able to write poetry.
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7th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis Comprehension Worksheet & Assessment BEST Standards FAST Test
Are you looking to help your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice and feel confident answering reading comprehension questions about a poem?These Poetry Reading Passages with text-dependent multiple-choice questions will help your students master understanding a poem. Understanding a poem is very difficult for students. The more practice, the more comfortable and confident your students will become.These align with Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards and common standardized testing questions stude
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3rd - 6th
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Poetry Analysis Unit: Analyzing Poetry for Grades 4-8
I was in desperate need of some great poetry to live up to the CCSS and that was how Poetry Analysis was born. My students needed rigorous texts that showed them how to critically think about poetry more than the surface level rhyming funny poems we had been studying. I found some AWESOME poetry and ways to incorporate this into your middle grades classrooms! The poems are great for a "close read" style or as homework, as a class, or even as a center! The pack includes: 6 - 1/2 sheet poems (
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4th - 8th
"Firework" by Katy Perry Poetry Terms Figurative Language Activities
Figurative Language and Poetic Devices/Poetry Terms Identification using Katy Perry's "Firework"Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which devices you'd like your students to find.Updated to include additional exercises for more in-depth learning and making connections to the text! Those I've pointed out in this exercise include:alliteration, anaphora, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Winter Christmas December Poetry Reading Comprehension Passages Poem of the Week
Are you looking for engaging ways to teach poetry in your classroom? Look no further, this Winter & Christmas Poetry Unit: Poem of the Week is a complete way to get you set up to begin this study in your classroom. This format is a consistent way to teach your students traditional poetry. My students have gained exposure to a variety of authors and become more fluent readers through these. CLICK PREVIEW TO SEE BOTH SETS INCLUDED!POEM OF THE WEEK PACKET INCLUDES:Print and digital format avail
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4th - 6th
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Brown Girl Dreaming by J.Woodson; A CCSS Aligned, PDF & Digital Book Study
OVERVIEW: If you like to inspire, teach, and motivate your students using award-winning, literature, don't overlook this amazing memoir: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2015 Newbery Honor Award, 2015 Coretta Scott King Award, 2014 National Book Award, and 2015 E.B. White Read-Aloud Middle Reader Award). Use this PDF, custom-made, no-prep, CCSS aligned memoir-study to help your students focus, understand, and stretch themselves as they read. If you want to use it with distance lea
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5th - 9th
Emily Dickinson "I'm Nobody" Poem -- Poetry Analysis and Creative Writing
Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody" is perfect for sharpening close-reading and literary analysis skills. But even better than that is knowing your students will connect with the poem, discuss it, and then write their own "I'm Somebody" poems.What a perfect poem to share with our middle and high school students! They can relate to this poem as easily as adults. Who hasn't felt like an outsider or "uncool" -- and to think this poem was written over 150 years ago!What teachers are saying about
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Poetry Unit with Analysis and Poetry Writing
Figurative Language Task Cards Quiz with Short Story Fiction Passages Practice
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to figurative language in short stories? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students can be challenging.These 20 figurative language task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known Fiction stories will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and const
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5th - 9th
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Emergency Sub Plans for English Language Arts Classes in High School
Looking for emergency sub plans for your high school English classes? If you don't have time to make detailed sub plans, or need some creative lesson plans to use in-between units, this is the resource for you! Don't let sick days be wasted days - these no-prep lessons are meaningful for students and easy for substitute teachers to implement! All student materials are writeable in Google Slides. DETAILS:⭐ 5 Days of Lesson Plans ⭐ Lesson #1: Students read, respond to, and write a mimic poem for
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8th - 12th
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Summer End-of-Year Summertime Readers Theater Poetry, Writing Prompts: Grade 3-6
Summer Readers' Theater Scripts and End-of-Year Activities for grades 3, 4, 5 & 6: 8-poem collection of fast and funny summertime poetry and literacy activities to launch 3rd-grade, 4th-grade, 5th-grade & 6th-grade students into summer vacation with fun, summer-themed readers' theater scripts, comprehension questions, writing prompts, and vocabulary word work.The 8 poems are provided as regularly formatted poems plus as 1- to 2-page stand-alone readers' theater scripts. Each poem also in
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3rd - 6th
Sonnet 18 Comic with Shakespeare
One of the best ways to introduce students to Shakespeare is to begin with Sonnet 18. This comic teaches students Sonnet 18 (or "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") one of the most famous poems in the English language. Included in this resource:-a comic that teaches the poem-a prereading activity in which students try to find words to fit blanks in the poem-questions about the poem-a lesson about sonnets, including the sonnet form and iambic pentameter. If you teach other Shakespeare plays,
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Intro to Shakespeare Activity Bundle
Readers' Theater Poetry ~ Reading Fluency Poems & Word Work: Grades 3, 4, 5 & 6
Poetry ~ Readers' Theater Poems: THE SILLY POEMS COLLECTION: A 10-poem collection of super-fast and funny readers’ theater scripts that are . . . well . . . silly poems.The 10 readers' theater poems in THE SILLY POEMS COLLECTION are:* Baddest, Toughest, Meanest (available as part of my free readers' theater 3-poem compilation preview)* Bookworm* Chicken Chunk Surprise* Do Not Disturb* I Gave Myself a Haircut (available as part of my free readers' theater 3-poem compilation preview)* My Thesaurus
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3rd - 6th
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Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration Packet + Test (Digital Enabled!)
This worksheet packet and test are all about helping students quickly and effectively nail the art of understanding/using figurative language!- Page 1: Simple clear definitions of Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, and Personification are paired with easy to understand examples. Students are tasked with providing two of their own examples as guided practice.- Page 2: Eighteen example sentences are listed and students practice identifying which type of figurative language is used in each.- Page 3: G
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5th - 9th
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Poetry Elements Escape: The Raven: ELA Digital Escape: Middle/High School Escape
⭐Who says ELA test prep needs to be boring? ⭐ Teen students are invited to compete using clues that practice Imagery/Symbolism, Rhyme Schemes, Poetic Devices, Plot Diagram and Comprehension Quiz. ⭐ This fully immersive 360° escape room based on "The Raven" will have students read and listen to the poem then solve clues to escape with their sanity intact!⭐A perfect introduction to Poetry! ⭐ Playing this fully immersive 360° Raven escape room will take students through imagery/symbolism of the po
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: *ELA Middle School/High School 360° ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle
Poetry Comprehension Task Cards Analysis Worksheet Figurative Language
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension practice for poetry? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm your 4th and 5th grade students can be challenging.These 20 poetry task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short, kid-friendly poems will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed response
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4th - 6th
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The Raven Lesson | Annotation Poetry Activity for Comprehension & Poetic Devices
Print and digital options included! Students highlight and annotate to analyze and demonstrate reading comprehension of Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem with a focus on (1) the plot, (2) rhyme scheme, (3) internal rhyme, (4) alliteration, (5) onomatopoeia, and (6) allusions.This product includes an annotation friendly version of Edgar Allan Poe's poem. Free versions of this public domain text are readily available in many locations, but this particular document gives students space to annotate a
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7th - 11th
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Poetry Mystery Picture Analysis Worksheet & ELA Color By Number Activities Theme
Looking for a fun and interactive way to practice poetry reading skills? Look no further! Our Poery Mystery Picture ELA Color By Number activity is the perfect addition to your classroom, offering an exciting twist on traditional reading comprehension practice.Click HERE for elementary! Key Features:Interactive Format: Students answer 10 multiple-choice questions based on 3 short poems to unveil a mystery picture. Once they've answered the questions, they self-check by coloring the mystery pict
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5th - 8th
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Learn more about poetry resources
Poetry encourages students to engage with language, explore their thoughts and feelings, and connect with the broader human experience. If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital poetry resources, look no further. TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
If you want to make poets out of younger students in elementary grades, then acrostic poems or fill in the blank poems are the perfect place to start. (In fact, many poetry resources on TPT include templates so your students can easily get started producing their own poetry, whether it’s a haiku, or limerick.) For older students in middle and high school, you can find an array of resources to teach them about everything from iambic pentameter, figurative language, to famous poets from history. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your students’ poetry skills in no time.
Fun and engaging poetry activities to try
Teaching students about poetry can be an engaging and creative experience. Here are a few ideas for poetry activities that you can find on TPT to help you introduce and explore the world of poetry with your students:
Poetic Device Scavenger Hunt
Distribute some poems and have students identify and highlight poetic devices like similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. Discuss what these are and the overall impact on the reader's experience.
Poetry Analysis Jigsaw
Divide students into small groups, assigning each group a different poem. Have each group analyze the assigned poem's themes, tone, and literary devices, and present their findings to the class.
Poetry Slam or Performance
Organize a poetry slam where students can perform poems they’ve written themselves or those written by famous poets. This will help build confidence and strengthen their public speaking skills.
Writing Poetry from Different Perspectives
Ask students to write a poem from the perspective of an inanimate object or an animal to foster empathy and encourage creative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Creating Found Poetry
Provide magazines, newspapers, or online articles. Have students cut out interesting words and phrases, and use them to create their own unique poems.
These (and other!) activities can help deepen your students’ appreciation for poetry and enhance their creative writing skills.
Frequently asked questions about teaching poetry
What types of poetry resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of poetry resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular poetry lessons include learning how to write haikus, acrostic poems, limericks, and free verse.
How do I find poetry resources on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing poetry lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for poetry resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of poetry lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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